I don't know a single person who is satisfied with the status quo on streaming services where you have to subscribe to multiple ones. Everyone is complaining that the landscape is 1) more fragmented than cable was, 2) costs more, 3) has even more ads than cable

I'm using copilot on vscode and the agent is "Auto" which cost 10% less.

The results are enough for me and I'm not doing things that allow me to differentiate the output between ChatGPT, Claude and, the others.

The agents are more like the radio in my car, whenever I want music, I switch channel until I find something good enough.

If I'm really in need of something special, I'll use Spotify on my phone.

And sometimes, I just drive with the radio off.

I agree. I spend a lot of time working from my phone so I had to make my own workflow that works for me. I've been following all these bans and drama with the subscription keys and custom harnesses etc. I think there's room for a "universal control plan" that lets you leverage the CLI providers (and whatever crappy interfaces / apis they give you).

There's a comparison of the approaches as I see them here https://yepanywhere.com/subscription-access-approaches

I was having too many bugs using it with my phone, I gave up and went back to Termux

Fair point technically, but I think the value proposition isn't the persistent session, rathere it's the abstraction layer. Screen/tmux assumes you know what commands to run. This assumes you know what outcome you want. For someone like me who came to coding late and doesn't have 20 years of muscle memory with terminal tools, the inefficiency in transport is more than offset by the efficiency in intent. Different tools for different people.

Well it DOES have less storage than a Nomad (hence lame), but this way you don't need to pay for a public IP address, or for a VPS to run Wireguard on, or for a commercial VPN solution, and then install a terminal emulator on your phone and set up SSH keys.

That’s not at all how this works. Commands are relayed through Anthropic’s servers with a client polling mechanism.

I’m running the agent in tmux in a colo. When I’m at a computer I use that, when I’m on the go the RC app is more convenient

claude /logout -> claude /login -> claude /remote-control

Make a throwaway GitHub account just for it and give it PR access to your private repos.

Wait why should I prefer being stuck in the office over taking a walk and periodically steering Claude code by phone?

One could just as easily argue hunching over your desk staring at your computer has neurological implications.

My favorite way to vibe code is by voice while in the hot tub. Rest AND focus AND build.

There are two types of software engineers: Those who do and then think, or those who think and then do. Claude Code seems to strictly be for the former, while typically the engineers who can maintain software long-term are the latter.

Not sure if we have any LLM-tooling for the latter, seems to be more about how you use the tools we have available, but they're all pulling us to be "do first, think later" so unless you're careful, they'll just assume you want to do more and think less, hence all the vibeslop floating around.

On the other hand, you lose a lot of time if you step away from a session and it gets stuck asking for permission to do something simple.

At this point if one lab comes up with a feature it’s a matter of time before another does the same!

This resonates hard. I'm a self-taught dev who started coding ~7 months ago, and honestly the conversational back-and-forth with Claude is how I built my entire first app. Not by reading docs cover to cover, but by describing what I wanted, getting code back, breaking it, asking why, and iterating. The idea of doing that untethered from my desk is genuinely exciting — not because I want to work more, but because some of my best thinking happens on walks, not in front of a screen.

Yeah the remote control featureset is pretty limited right now. I did a comparison here https://yepanywhere.com/claude-code-remote-control/ (with my own project). I'm sure they'll iterate on it. Overall it's such an obvious feature for them to add I'm surprised it took them so long to ship. There are probably at least 50 such projects that people have made (https://github.com/kzahel/yepanywhere/blob/main/docs/competi...)

The one feature drawback of tailscale/tmux/termius is no file upload. And ergonomics, ability to view files/diffs easily, though that's subjective.

Which is so much better because you can do other terminal stuff and you can avoid vendor lock in.

You can also just open the app on your phone and go to the sidebar and click on Code and then you'll see the session at the top of your session list.

I run Codex using terminus, iOS, and a VPS.

Hoping Cursor will also adopt.

Regular claude code is already a remote access door to your setup, once you've granted a few command execution permissions. (e.g. if it can edit your code and run the test suite)

TIL that HA notifications can have associated actions. I have the exact same setup as you, except I only receive the notification and then walk over to the laptop to unblock the agent feeling like a human tool call. This will improve my workflow, thank you.

I honestly think this is definitely where (at least part of) the industry is heading, yes.

This is not to say engineers are getting replaced — but, certainly, they are changing their work. And, sure, maybe _some_ of them are being replaced. Not most of the ones I know, though. They are essential to orchestrate, curate, maintain, and drive all of this.

(Now, do they want to orchestrate it? Whole different story...)

Doesn't have to be. Before OpenClaw was a thing, people were experimenting with setups to allow them to drive their agent remotely.

And of course, OpenClaw is built to be a very generalist agent with a chat interface - same effective outcome as remotely controlling an AI harness, but not exactly what everyone wants.